The last time Kate Bosworth was in Louisiana to work, she was playing a woman tormented by local yokels in director Rod Lurie's Shreveport-shot "Straw Dogs" remake. This time, she'll be one of those yokels, in Gary Fleder's New Orleans-shot "Homefront."

Kate Bosworth walks the red carpet at a screening of director Rod Lurie's Shrevepor-shot 'Straw Dogs' remake. The actress is headed to New Orleans next for a role in 'Homefront.'

Based on the book by Chuck Logan and adapted for the screen in a script by Sylvester Stallone -- who also earns a producing credit -- the film tells the story of a DEA agent (Statham) who is hoping for a measure of peace and quiet when he moves his family to a small, sleepy town. Those plans get shattered when he finds himself in the middle of a feud with a local meth kingpin named Gator (Franco).

Bosworth will play Gator's meth-head sister, who sics her brother on Statham's character when his daughter beats up her bully son at school.